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FriedButter said:
Meanwhile, this is apparently a major political problem in France. The political left faction is hesitant for air conditioning meanwhile the political right faction wants air conditioning after denying climate change for decades.




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French can try air conditioning but it may also impact French culture.
This climate change will make europe much much poorer and weak industrials will further deprive it of Soft Power.
I may have posted this earlier. It is basically UAE telling Erdogan that we know these Europeans better than you despite you being in NATO and millions of Turks interact with Europeans. Erdogan personally went to Argentina. and this loss to Japan was 2 to 1.
This olympics may have made Japan more europhile and clouded its judgement on many things like Rare Earth.

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Its not just about courage. Iran literally built its entire military and economy around fighting the US. They built tunnels for years, they developed all their industrial resilience, they built all their missiles and drones themselves and finally set up all the command and control. Finally, they had the juicy targets to put pressure on US like the Gulf states and Israel.

I would say Iran is the only middle-power that is capable of forcing the US the way Iran did. No one else can do it.
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Iran is dealing with US through Pakistan and Qatar. what has the two countries relationship with Saudi?. Saudi is the middle power that has delegated responsibilities to these two countries. There is another country Oman that Iran want to share Strait of Hormuz.
Oman is now Saudi Silent partner in Yemen. remember Houthis are side lined. they are sitting on bench.
now what will elevate Saudis from middle- power to running an Empire. i keep mentioning that New Europe.
This Putin basically giving address on behalf of Russian muslims to Uzbeks and Putin got similar welcome in Tashkent like in Kazakhstan. and there is some thing unique happened. instead of two days he stay three days and last day Putin basically disappeared in Uzbek president home. this is the building blocks.
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Yup. The new algorithm kept on pushing hardcore racist content to me (some South African white guy who literally called black people jigaboos) despite me not interacting with any of this shit in the past. They also kept on pushing Israel tourism ads for some reason. All the Wumao content creators I used to follow have vanished from my four you suggestions stream.
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Ironically the tether that Bytedance had on tiktok to ameliorate radicalism and reactionary content on the platform means that with it now gone, anti-Indian sentiment is through the roof and we might see pogroms on Indians in western countries in the next few years. Indians can't do anything to buffer this since they banned it, so we see the true and unmolested opinions on Indians on the platform.
 
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Another example of "language is power"

Just as 封建 Fengjian and feudalism are not the same thing, the Chinese 龙 Loong and the dragon are not the same thing.

The 朝贡 Chaogong system in Chinese history and the tribute system are not the same thing either. When Dalio used this word, he unintentionally distorted its original meaning.

This is why I think the Japanese of the past were far more sophisticated; they extensively used transliteration to enchant their own cultural concepts.

Modern Chinese people, in order to accommodate foreign understanding, often resort to the method of "Chinese + foreign similarity" for translation, such as "油条 youtiao" (fried dough sticks) = "Chinese Churro," and calling all steamed pastries "jiaozi" (dumplings).

Using foreign similarities as a starting point, the cultural concept is demystified before it even has a chance to be truly enchanted.
 
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